ELIJAH ASHCRAFT SHACKLETT
    b 2-13-1813 d 10-26-1875
        m 9-1-1841 Mary Walker Saunders b 6-9-1824 d 3-3-1868

Elijah Shacklett and family lived on a farm in Stith Valley.  The farm was still in the possession of the family when Viola Williams Shacklett wrote her letters in 1907.   Uncle Bud was the only child who lived on the farm and worked it for at time.

Their children were:

    Elizabeth Jane (Betsy) b 7-16-1848 d 12-8-1887
        m 8-6-1868 John C. Walker Taylor
            Lauren J. b 7-10-1869 d 8- -1948
            Daniel Percy b 11-18-1871 d 8-8-1958
            Mary b 3-26-1874 d 10- -1966
            Jesse Shacklett b 8-27-1877 d 2- -1959

    Samantha Barbara b 1-16-1851 d 12-8-1950 Unmarried

    Carolina b 5-5-1853 d 6-15-1932
        m 9-9-1877 Thomas H. Hamilton Divorced 1907
            Wathena Barbara b 6-26-1878 d 4-5-1954
            Tennessee b 9-21-1881 d
            William Shacklett b 5-3-1886 d 1- -1972

    William Anderson (Bud) b 10-6-1855 d 9-12-1948
        m 12-6-1893 Eunice Enfield Williams
            Elijah Williams b 6-4-1897 d 1975
            Elizabeth Enfield b 7-22-1899 d 7-7-1918

    Richard Peter b 7-15-1858 d 11-9-1930
        m 3-13-1887 Viola Williams
            Mary b 12-26-1887 d 10-4-1970
            Irby b 5-28-1889 d 7-20-1965
            Frances b 9-9-1891 d 3-15-1968
            Adalisa Hardaway b 11-12-1893 d 6-7-1981
            Lois Hunt b 2-19-1896 d 7-8-1982
            Richard b 3-9-1898 d 4-1-1898
            Julia b 3-9-1898 d 3-11-1898
            Hayward Hamilton b 3-18-1899 d 1977
            Rachelle b 9-17-1901 d 2-2-1982
            Mildred Williams b 12-29-1903 d 12- -1977

Mary David (Molly b 7-13-1862 d 5-23-1949)
    m prior to 1887 Richard Carrico Divorced about 1896)
    m Reuben Newton Hatcher

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Polly and Elijah Shacklett